"Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns, 1867-1886"

[Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790]

Howdy, have a nice book for sale.

 

"Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns, 1867-1886"

by Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell

 

"These accounts of the exploits and antics of twenty-one western gunfighters in Kansas during the days of the Long Drive are deerived entirely from contemporaneous sources - newspapers; city, township, county, state, and federal records; and letters, diaries, and other manuscript materials. Such men as Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok are seen not through a haze of artificial gunsmoke but sharp and clear through the eyes of their contemporaries.

The focal points of the author's hald decade of research were seven Kansas cowtowns in their wildest years: Abilene, 1867-1871; Hays, 1867-1871: Newton, 1871; Ellsworth, 1871-1875; Wichita, 1870-1877; Dodge City, 1872-1886; and Caldwell, 1879-1885. The result is a book that will not only appeal to all lovers of Western Americana, but will also prove a trustworthy research tool for scholars probing this area of American history.

Much of the material first appeared in serial form in The Kansas State Historical Society Quarterly and was subsequently expanded and collected in Why The West Was Wild (1963), from which the present volume is drawn."

 

copyright 1963

first Bison Book printing: September, 1967

second Bison Book printing: November, 1969

 

5 3/8" x 8" tall

476 pages

 

book is in very good condition

NO dust jacket as this book is a "soft cover"

 

$16.00 shipped to you(media rate) in the U.S.A.

 

If you are interest or need more info. please post here on the SASS wire.

 

SOLD

 

Thanks for look'n.

[Major Pain]

Having been born in Junction City, KS (Ft. Riley area), I'll take it. PM sent.

Major Payne

[Wolfgang, SASS #53480]

DAMN . . . I missed another good one. But I'm sure glad you had another copy of "Hell I Was There" . . that was EXCELLENT